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  1. 6401LetterENA 4020.46 + ENA 2806.12

    India Book (IB) IV,80 (ח90). Letter by Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in Damascus (חדרך), to Yeshuʿa b. Moshe, in Egypt. In Hebrew. Dating: ca. 1145/46 …

    IB IV,80 ב recto

    1. כח יעלצו / וישישו בשמחה בהתיחשם לשבט
    2. מושל תמימותם / למשפחותם / לבית את אשר

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  2. 6402LetterT-S 12.432

    Recto: Letter (upper part). Line 7: "As for the matter of the [..]ar, I asked Abu l-Ḥasan about it, and he said that he talked …

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  3. 6403Legal documentT-S 12.461

    Contract in which Ṣedaqa b. Muvḥar, a scholar known from a number of manuscripts dating to 1076–86 CE (e.g. T-S 20.110 (PGPID 1774)) gives 50 …

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    1. אסתקר [בבית ד]ין בין מר ור צדקה החבר בר מר מובחר הזקן נע ובין אבו מנצור מר
    2. אהרן אלזיאת בר מ מבשר נע אן יסלם מר ור צדקה דנן לאבי מנצור דנן מא קד…

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  4. 6404Legal documentAIU VII.D.38 + AIU VII.D.65 + AIU VII.D.66

    Recto: Legal declaration from Cairo, 1737 CE (18 Shevat 5491), in which the witnesses testify that Shelomo b. David Valensi divorcd his wife Sarah bt. …

    1. באחד בשבת בשמנה עשר יום ליר׳׳ח שבט שנת חמשת אלפים וארבע מאות ותשעים ושבע
    2. ליצירה הכא בעיר אלקאהרה הסמוכה לפסטאט מצרים דעל נהר נילוס מותבה בב׳׳ד י׳׳ב …

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  5. 6405Legal documentAIU VII.D.66 + AIU VII.D.38 + AIU VII.D.65

    Recto: Legal document from Cairo, dated 1730 CE (1 Heshvan 5491 AM), involving a debt of 5000 diwani medins owed by Moshe Benvenist to Shabbetay …

    1. בע׳׳ה
    2. בפנינו עדים חותמי מטה הודה הגביר יקר ונעלה לתהלה כה׳׳ר משה בנבנישת תושב עיר
    3. רשיד העומד היום פה מצרים שהוא חייב להיקר נשא ונעלה לתהלה כה׳׳ר שבת…

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  6. 6406List or tableENA 2591.14 + ENA 2591.15

    Accounting for five months, ca. 1230. Two leaves, the first of which has writing on both sides. The first part is an estimate of the …

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    1. ת       בש    רח
    2. תסקיע אלרבע אלמסכון מנה באלאגרה
  7. He had tohis credit as a prepayment (to)
  8. Makārim al-Qazzāz, 28¼.
  9. Dār al-Jazīra,
  10. 27½.
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  12. 6407LetterENA NS 7.30 + ENA 4011.15

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: that Peraḥya's letter arrived with ʿAyyāsh; 17 dirhams; a …

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  13. 6408Letterp. Heid. Hebr. 13

    Letter from a scholar and muqaddam (Aodeh identifies him as Avraham b. Ṣedaqa but does not explain why) to Abū Saʿīd Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa the …

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  14. 6409Legal documentT-S 8.168 + ENA 4011.54

    Fragment of a settlement with a widow. Dated: Nisan 1456 Seleucid, which is 1145 CE, under the authority of Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In the hand …

    T-S 8.168 + ENA 4011.54

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתתא סוף שטר]א דנן כן הוה בחדש ניסן דשנת אלפא וארבע מא|ה וחמשין ושיתא שנין
    2. לשטרות בפ…

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  15. 6410LetterT-S 8J19.21

    Recto: Lower part of an incomplete letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Isḥāq and then describes a quiet apartment which has been obtained for the addressee: …

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  16. 6411Legal documentT-S 20.47

    Recto (secondary use): Memorandum of testimony written at the margins of an inventory belonging to the synagogue of the Iraqis in Fustat, made out on …

    1. בחד בשבה דהוא תמניה יומי בירח תמוז דשנת אלפא
    2. ותלת מאה ותשען וחד שנין למנינא דרגיליננא ביה
    3. בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה חצר בבית
    4. דין מר ור אברהם…

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  17. 6412Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/37

    Deposition in the Jewish Court of Tyre, ca. 1028. The rent of a compound in Aleppo has been dedicated by its owner, Hilla b. Joseph, …

    1. לאבירי ארץ ואליה ברורי ברה ובלוליה גדודי גבע וגאוליה דובבי דעת ודוליה
    2. הוגי הבינה והמוליה וועודי ווסת וקהליה זבודי זכיות וזבוליה חוקרי חכמה וחייליה
    3. ט…
    Hillā, answered telling us: We truth- fully inform you that this compound, that belonged to our father, Hilla, in the city of Ṣōvā, is in the vicinity of the Great Synagogue; it is known
  18.  by the name of our father and hisancestors; it is a celebrated one, so that there is no need to mention the bordering properties.

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  20. 6413LetterT-S Ar.51.111

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely Tammuz 1232 CE, and almost definitely 1232–37 CE. See below for explanation. Writer and addressee are unidentified. The writer dictated …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]בקה אלל[ה] תעאלי וגמיע
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…

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  21. 6414LetterHalper 415 + Halper 416

    Letter draft from an anonymous shaliaḥ, in Fustat/Cairo, to an unknown addressee, in Jerusalem. In Hebrew. Dated: Monday, 22 Raḥamim, 5595 AM, which is 1835 …

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    1. כתיב יום ב׳ כ״ב לחודש | [ר]חמים שנת התקצה לפ״ק

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  22. 6415LetterT-S NS J380

    Abū l-Faraj b. Khalaf (?), probably in Minyat Ghamr, writes to his cousin (ibn ʿamma), Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. These cousins had prior correspondence …

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    1. מן אבו אלפרג בן כלף
    2. אלדי אעלם אלשיך אלאגל
    3. רבי אלייה אטאל אללה בק[אה]

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  23. 6416Legal documentBL OR 4684.3

    Document of sale dated 454 AH. Since the top part of the document is damaged neither the parties to the sale nor the object of …

    1. [......] المذكور في هذا الكتاب قد قبض البايعون المسمون
    2. تاما وافيا وأبروا جميعا براه قبض واستيفا وسلموا اليه
    3. وملكه وحازه وصار مالا من ماله وملكه من ا…
  24. Nawāl ibn Jawāb testified to the acknowledgement by the sellers and the buyer of what isherein. This has been written by his instruction and in his presence.
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  26. 6417State documentBodl. MS Heb. d 99/5

    One fragmented line in an Arabic chancery hand, probably of a decree, later cut and reused to form quires of Hebrew script. A suggestive reading …

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  27. 6418LetterENA 3776.1

    Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew. Possbly addressed to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. The sender is from a distant land. He set out …

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  28. 6419LetterENA NS 18.14

    Letter addressed to Moshe b. Ghālib ha-Kohen. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Discusses the education of 'the children of the community' (awlād al-ṣibbur). Only …

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    1. אלשי]ך אלגליל כב גד קד מרנ ורבנ משה
    2. הזקן] הנכבד | [. . . . .] ינצרו יוצרנו ויעזרו מגננו בר כגק מר ורב

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  29. 6420LetterENA NS 70.14

    Letter fragment, addressed to some dignitary. Recto preserves the flowery introduction of the letter. In Hebrew. There is very faded text in both Hebrew and …

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  30. 6421LetterENA NS I.89b

    Letter in Hebrew to the communal leaders of Sicily (maybe Palermo?). On the back is a writing trial from the book of Esther and some …

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  31. 6422LetterJRL A 287

    Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company, in Alexandria, to Karo y Frances & Company, in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 8 Shevat 5572 AM, which is …

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  32. 6423LetterJRL B 2744

    Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter with wide space between the lines, probably too faded to read. The names or titles of the addressee may appear …

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  33. 6424LetterJRL B 6999

    Letter fragment from Abū Saʿd to his cousin (ibn ʿamm), in New Cairo. (Or possibly Abū Saʿd is the addressee.) In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a girl …

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  34. 6425LetterMoss. II,105.2

    The opening of a letter, from a Gaʾon, to Meshullam and Yiṣḥaq, sons of Yehoshuaʿ. There is Arabic text on verso, probably the address, mentioning …

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  35. 6426LetterMoss. V,364.2 + Moss. V,364.1

    Still un-conserved, and the pages stick together. Contains at list two letters, one in Arabic and one in Judeo-Arabic. According to the catalogue it is …

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  36. 6427Legal documentMoss. VII,11

    Will of a dyer, before going on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 12 Iyyar, 4975 AM = 1526 Seleucid, which …

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  37. 6428Legal documentMoss. VII,12.1

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 21 [...] 1369 Seleucid, which is 1057/58 CE. Involves Yisrael ha-Shulḥani, Nissim b. Maḥbūb, and Ṣemaḥ b. …

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  38. 6429List or tableT-S 6J1.12

    The final name is X the blind man, illustrating the integration of needy and communal officials into expenditure lists. See separate record for recto.

    1. אלדי אנפק מן מסתכרג אלמחרם?
    2. אלאהוב ג
    3. בן אלמטרי א ½
    4. בן אלמעלם אלמליגי א ½
    5. עבדאללה אלדי פי אלעראקיין ב
    6. אבו אלחסן אבן אבו אלרכב א ½
    7. אבו סעד אלחזן בן אל…

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  39. 6430LetterT-S 8J14.9

    Recto: Letter in which a prominent person (al-Shaykh al-Sadīd Yeshaʿya) is politely asked to pay his debt. Dating: likely 13th century. Verso: Accounts in Arabic …

    1. אצגר אלממאליך יקבל ידי מולאה
    2. ומאלך רקה אלמולא אלאגל אלמופק
    3. אלסעיד אלסייד אלפאצל אלדין אלורע
    4. אלמנעם אלמתפצל אלשיך אלסדיד
    5. רבי ישעיה השר הנכבד החכם
    6. והנ…

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  40. 6431Literary textT-S Ar.29.8

    Bifolio containing three pages of a text on the calendar in Judaeo-Arabic. The fourth page is in Arabic script and seems to be discussing the …

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  41. 6432LetterT-S Ar.39.366

    Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era based on format. Opens with greetings to various people including Umm Muḥammad and 'al-ḥājja al-dādā'(?). In the margin …

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  42. 6433LetterT-S AS 145.342

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions Abū ʿAlī. Essentially no information is …

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  43. 6434LetterT-S AS 148.156

    Letter to Elḥanan "Rosh ha-Seder of all Israel." In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Most of what remains is formulaic. Mentions …

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  44. 6435Legal documentT-S AS 153.389

    Small fragment from the top of a ketubah. The groom is Yeshu'a b. Shelomo. Someone used the spaces between the lines to copy and duplicate …

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  45. 6436Legal documentT-S AS 155.3

    Responsum concerning someone who had left his possessions with his brother, who subsequently died and the possessions went to his heirs. On recto there is …

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  46. 6437LetterT-S AS 157.307

    Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Recto of this fragment is so faded that only a …

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  47. 6438Legal documentT-S NS 338.47

    Draft of a marriage contract (ketubba) under the authority of Avraham Maimonides, who is referred to as "Nagid" (therefore post-1213 CE). There are numerous other …

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  48. 6439LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/37

    Letter from Natan ha-Kohen ha-Mumḥe b. Mevorakh (a.k.a. Wahb b. Barakāt), in Ashqelon, to the parnas ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen (a.k.a. Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. …

  49. שלומו ושלומו ושלום חמודו וכל נלויהם לעד נצח סלה: ישע רב
  50. Recto, upper margin:

    1. מודה חסדיו נתן הכהן המומחה ביר מבורך סט

    Verso, address:

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  51. 6440LetterENA 2727.43

    Letter from Abū l-Faraj b. Manṣūr al-Shammāʿ (the candlemaker/seller) to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. First he deals with a monetary matter of 104 wariq …

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  52. 6441Paraliterary textENA 3235.1 + ENA 3235.2

    Calendar manual with distinctive Palestinian calendar traditions, such as the rule of 641–642. Defers to Babylonian calendar rules, in a way that is inconsistent and …

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  53. 6442Legal documentJRL L 130

    Legal document in Hebrew, very damaged. Location: Cairo. Dated 16 ___[month missing] ___52 AM. Based on the paleography the year is most likely 5552 AM …

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  54. 6443LetterT-S AS 146.15

    Letter to the judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya requesting he intervene with the Nagid on behalf of the bearer of the letter, who had spent six …

    1. ורבצת ואין מחריד וג
    2. אלי אלמגלס אלעאלי אלריסי אלאגלי [ . . . . . .
    3. אלאגל כגק מרינו ורבינו אליהו הדיין
    4. והנבון שצ . . . . אליה ירום הודו אן מוצל
    5. הדה אל…

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  55. 6444LetterT-S AS 185.1

    Letter in Arabic, possibly from 'your father Futūḥ' (this appears at upper left a few lines down from the top) to an unidentified addressee, it …

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  56. 6445Legal documentT-S NS 150.155

    Two legal documents written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (ca. 1100–38). Recto: Possibly a debt acknowledgment. Fragment (upper right corner). Involves Abū Sahl Menashshe b. Yehuda …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי ד[
    2. אלשיך אבו סהל כגק מר ור מנ[שה
    3. יהודה הזקן הנכבד נע וקאל לנא [
    4. ואכתמו עלי בגמיע אלאלפאט [
    5. דזכואתא וסלמו דלך אלי אלשיך [

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  57. 6446LetterT-S NS 321.34

    Letter describing two meetings with physicians. At least part of the letter is addressed to the sender's mother. The first meeting was a visit to …

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    1. פי קלבי אלנאר ולא תסאלו מא [עלי קלבי מן ציקה]

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  58. 6447LetterT-S NS 324.96 + T-S AS 150.63

    Letter from a son to his father Mubārak b. [...], in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. With rudimentary handwriting and spellings. …

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  59. 6448LetterBL OR 5542.20

    The writer is interested in buying tin because it is in demand among traders from Palestine.

  60. ללה תע'
  61. בחסן אלעאקבה
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    1. תקבל אללה
    2. מנה
    3. כצצתה

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    יקבל (זאת) אלוהים ממך. הריני שולח לך את מיטב דרישות השלום, ולאדוני רב׳ נסים בנך, מיטב דרישות השלום ולמי שנתון להשבחתך דרישות שלום ....

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  63. 6449Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/40

    Verso: Legal document, on the back of the ketubba. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Last third of Ṭevet 1443 Seleucid, which is …

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  64. 6450Legal documentCUL Add.3413

    Verso: Addendum or subsequent court record concerning Abū l-Munā and 90 jars of wine as well as other commodities and someone named Ṣāʿid. This record …

    1. ומן בעד הדא אלאסתקראר אתפקא פי אמר
    2. אלנביד אן אדא וצל אלי מלך אבו אלמנא
    3. אלתסעין גרה נביד כאן קבלה ופי דמתה
    4. ען תמן דלך תסעה דנאניר וען תמן
    5. אלמערקה דינ…

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